Authors Note: Hello! Sorry it took me this long to upload. I'm quite irritated when I saw the new poster of MX's third season. Grrrrrrrrrrrr….. anyways, here I am now uploading…LOL
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Ok here we go again…
Underestimated
~Thought ~
Memory
/Sounds/
"Conversation"
Chapter 21
Crowds screamed for their new champion. They were all excited, even more excited than Emma. They cheered for her as another psionic ruled the mutants. It wasn't new for them. They knew that psionics are power beyond their wildest imagination. They only thought Emma wasn't ready yet but they guessed wrong and Emma proved them wrong.
Emma is really one hell of a woman. They all have that in their minds now that they have seen her on the ring in a real fight. The former fights that Emma has fought were all petty fights compared to this one and their waiting was all worthwhile. Emma gave them the best fight ever.
The Mutant X group wanted to run and see Emma but Emma's new companion crowded her and the group didn't had their chance to talk to her. But Jesse was determined to have Emma back and he is not going anywhere until they talk to her. Jesse headed his way out.
"Jess, where are you going?" Adam called out when he was Jesse running away.
"I didn't come here just to watch her fight. I didn't come here just to see her. I intend to talk to Emma and not just to stare at her." Jesse replied as he run outside.
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Emma forgot that her friends—Shalimar, Brennan, Jesse and Adam, were there to see her. She was overwhelmed by the crowds' applause when she was declared the new champion. Everyone was very proud of her and she was even prouder of herself. It didn't even matter if her kimono was stained with blood. She was just happy it's over. Emma smiled at herself. It feels damn good to be powerful and not defenseless.
"Are you ready to go?" Meg called out as Emma continued to fix herself. The two psionics are now in the dressing room as the crowd in the stadium started to decline.
"Uno mumento por pavor." Emma grinned as she used the Spanish line for 'one moment please'. She chose a comfortable pair of boots, a skirt paired with a hanging tank and then she looked at the bloodstains at her kimono and she smiled.
"Aren't you going to wash that?" Meg asked Emma as she pointed at the blood on Emma's kimono.
Emma shook her head as she held her kimono high. "No, I won't." Emma looked at Meg, smiled and looked back at the kimono. "I'd like to see them like this. It would remind me that I'm not weak. I was never weak. They just underestimated me…us…they all underestimated us." Emma explained.
No mater how Emma tried to hide, Meg could see the pain that she is into and then she remembered about the Mutant X. "Emma, your friends are…"
"Meg, I don't want to talk about them right now."
"But they're…"
"Please Meg. This is my night. I wish to enjoy it."
Meg could say anything anymore. She wished there are other ways were she could help Emma. She just sighed and raised her shoulder.
"Is Cole coming with us?" Emma then asked when she remembered Cole. She would like to thank him for the support he gave her. It's not everyday that you meet someone and he would turn out to be an angel in disguise.
Meg shook her head. "No. He went ahead. He said he has to meet someone. He added that it's important."
"Ohh!" Emma nodded. "Maybe he's meeting his girlfriend." Emma giggled as a picture of Cole with a woman flashed in her wits and then she accepted the reason and then she took her things. "Shall we go now?"
Meg eyed her and then eyed her clothes. "We're going…and you'll wear that?"
Emma looked at herself and then to Meg. "Yeah! Something wrong?"
Meg shook her head and giggled. "Nah!" she paused for a while. "Are you sure?"
"Com—on!" Emma dragged her as they both giggled.
"Ok." Meg carried her things and then went behind Emma before she closed the door and joined the group of her psionic students.
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"Are you sure they're passing this way?" Brennan asked Jesse as they waited. The team hung around longer at the back alley where they hope Emma will be passing.
"You know what? I really don't know but I can't think of anything any more…" Jesse started arguing with Brennan when they heard voices coming from the building.
"Yeah! And then Ricky clawed me really bad. And he was like…." Emma stopped at the middle of her sentence when she saw Mutant X on their way. Her classmates got ready to defend her when Meg stopped them.
"They're Emma's friends." Meg said.
"Former friends." Emma corrected. Blood came rushing back and fort her heart and it made her heart beat faster. ~What are they doing here? Why are they here? ~ Emma thought.
Brennan stepped forward and took Emma's hand. "Sorry girls, we can't play right now. We only need our teammate back." He pulled her but to no avail. Emma pulled back as she was not willing to come with them. "Emma, come on."
"What do you want?" Emma asked them without a trace of happiness in her face.
"You. We want you back." Shalimar replied.
Emma laughed and then posed a cynic look. "Yeah right. Why?"
"Why? Emma. What kind of question is that?" Jesse stepped forward.
Emma shook her head. "This would be a senseless talk. Let's go girls." And then they started their way back when Brennan run and blocked her way.
"Whoa! You're coming with us Emma." Brennan stood right in front of Emma as to convince her and stop her.
"Really. You just try and stop me!" Emma unflinchingly challenged.
With that, Brennan knew that Emma wouldn't come with them easily. "What are you proposing?" He asked with a nervous heart.
"We settle this with a spar. You win, I come with you. No arguments. You lose, you won't bother me again. Deal?"
Brennan's jaw dropped open as to saying 'uh' he lifted his hand and scratched his temple. "Oh come on Emma. You know I can't fight with you."
"You could. You just wouldn't." Emma gave off a very sarcastic smile but she knew that Brennan wouldn't fight her any moment soon so she decided to play with his emotion.
Gathering her strength, Emma focused her mental power into Brennan's head. Driving him insane with angry.
Brennan did not even know where his anger is coming he just started yelling. "Why do you have to do this to me?" he screamed.
The Mutant X team was a bit stunned and they all stood in their place as they watch Brennan and Emma in a little spar while the psionics of the other group started cheering for Emma.
"That's more like it!" Emma snorted then she run towards Brennan and gave him a kick on the belly.
"Emma. Please don't do this!" Brennan begged, as he didn't really want to fight Emma. He tried to stand up as he caressed his belly where Emma kicked him.
But Emma is in no mood to listen. She somersaulted and landed on top of Brennan, pinning the elemental down. "You like this?" she teased then gave him a peck on the cheek before she punched him. And again. And again.
"Emma!" Brennan screamed as he felt his nose bridge break.
"Don't you Emma me!" Emma yelled back. She stood up and looked at him when her eyes caught something. ~Water tank ~
Brennan's eyes followed Emma and he saw the tank too. "No!" he uttered. "You wouldn't!"
Emma grinned looked at the tank. She was preparing for a blast when she heard Brennan creating his tesla coil. ~Finally ~ she thought.
As he was afraid of water, Brennan had no choice but to fight back. "I'm sorry Emma." He softly said and then he released the electric volt. But then something else happen. Emma raised her hand and the volt stopped just in front of her. "What the…" Brennan almost cursed. Then Emma threw the electricity back to him. And it sent Brennan flying across the alley.
"I've been wanting to do that for like forever." Emma laughed her head off.
"Emma, we knew you didn't mean that." Shalimar finally screamed as she snapped back out of shock to attend to Brennan's week body.
/tsk! Tsk! Tsk! / Emma made a annoying sound as she shook her head. "You really didn't think my psi-bolt could make the tank fall on you, right?" she made a face towards Brennan. And then she laughed as she walked closer to the elemental.
But Shalimar couldn't just let the psionic hurt her beloved. She stood in front of Brennan so as to protect him from Emma. "Back off Emma, or else…"
"Or else what?" Emma cut in Shalimar's sentence and then she smiled devilishly. "Are you gonna kill me?" she pouted her lips.
"I will if I have to." Shalimar declared. Her eyes flashed yellowish green and she was ready if Emma made any movement at all.
Emma looked at the feral and then she grinned. "Come on Shal. You know as much as I do that you can't." Emma laughed and turned away.
"Emma! We're not over yet." Brennan called out as he tried standing up.
Shalimar turned to Brennan to stop him but the elemental insisted. He wants Emma back as well. His connection with her might be broken but his concern and affection for the psionic still exist. "We're not over yet." He repeated.
Emma looked at him then she rained him with endless psi-bolt…emotions which even psionic themselves have a hard time handling.
Brennan screamed in pain as each emotions attacked him. Fear, loneliness, love, betrayal, trust, deceit, pain, tears… all of which he didn't know how to handle.
"How do you feel Bren?" Emma asked with a sinister smile. "How does it feel to be under all these emotions?"
"Make it stop Emma." Brennan begged as he held his head between his hands.
Shalimar glanced at Brennan. ~That's it! ~ she thought and then she jumped off to Emma. She threw punches at Emma but the tele-empath successfully averted it. Then Shalimar somersaulted and got Emma on the stomach.
Emma moved away as she attended her hurt belly. Then she smiled as she was projecting something in Shalimar's mind.
"Fire!" Shalimar moved away when she saw fire around her. ~this is just an illusion. ~ she told herself but being a pyrophobic she stayed where she is like a frightened cat inside a wall of fire.
"Stop it Emma!" Adam called out but Emma had no time to listen she faced Brennan again and rained him another set of emotions.
Emma laughed at the top of her lungs as she could see the pain in Brennan's eyes. "That is nothing compared to what I have to deal with every morning and every night." Emma's smile started to fade as loneliness stroked her. She tried her best not to cry.
"Emotions which buffeted me every day and I'm left at the mercy of everyone." She paused and she stopped from hitting Brennan with her psi-blast, she even stopped projecting the fire from Shalimar's mind and the feral retreated to Adam's arms.
Emma looked at the team and then to Brennan. "And then you came and saved me from the hell that I've been in…only to put me in another hell that is almost worst than where I've been." Emma started to raise her voice.
Brennan could not believe his ears. He has no idea what hell Emma has been in every day of her life. He didn't know that Emma faces her own battle for sanity. He didn't know how Emma managed to hide this from them. And for this alone, he knew that no one has even come very close to the strength Emma has just to survive.
"How dare you call me weak!" Emma hollered and then she started hitting Brennan again. "Who are you? You can't even bare this little emotions." Anger showed in her emeralds she hit Brennan again and again…and then she stopped.
With a very soft voice, she asked him… "Tell me who's weak? Tell me, who among us is weak?"
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***Lyza***
Ok. That was short and a chapter full of angst. I thought Emma would really want the other's to feel what she has been through. The next chapter would be a match between Jesse and Emma. Keep those reviews coming. Thanks a lot.
